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We are pleased to inform you that the “Readiness to Engage: Stakeholder Engagement Experiences for REDD+” report produced by the Forest Carbon, Markets and Communities program is now available on the FCMC website. Please click here to access the report.
This study covers national, sub-national and nested stakeholder engagement experiences, good practices and...
Land is not being used to its best advantage, according to a new study by Ikerbasque Professor Unai Pascual from the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) and University of Cambridge, and a team of environmental economists from Europe.
Research published in the journal Science (5th July 2013) shows that allowing land use to be determined purely by agricultural markets results in considerable...
Youths from eleven Himalayan states- Nagaland, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Assam, Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura and Darjeeling- have gathered for the first Himalayan Youth Summit that shall address serious issues relating to environment and state-development. The two-day long summit commenced at Naga Heritage Village at Kisama on Sunday.
Merentoshi R Jamir,...
Foreword
By Alejandro Camino D.C.
HimalAndes Initiave, founder
It has been slightly over a decade since a group of academics from the natural and social sciences, with experience in both the Andes and the Himalaya launched the “HimalAndes Initiative”, aimed at promoting information exchange and cooperation in science and technology between two of the largest mountain ranges in...
The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has released several videos and other materials to mark the tenth anniversary of the coming into force of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.
The materials include a short video about the Protocol and messages by representatives of Parties and relevant organizations highlighting the Protocol's main achievements and lessons...
The Governments of Switzerland and the Netherlands, as well as the United Nations Secretary-General's Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation and the World Water Council, with the participation of UN-Water are organizing a Ministerial Luncheon on Tackling Water Risks to Ensure a Sustainable Future on the occasion of the General Assembly Special Event on the achievement of the Millennium...
Recognizing the importance of exchange of experience on the establishment and functioning of joint bodies, the Parties to the Water Convention have included in the Work Programme for 2013–2015 two workshops to promote the exchange of experience and good practices between joint bodies worldwide and to draw lessons learned and recommendations.
The First Workshop will be organized on 23 and...
The 4th Global Meeting of the Mountain Partnership (MP) took place at the Xanadu Snow White Hotel in Erzurum, Turkey from 17-19 October 2013. On 20 September participants went on a field trip to Uzundere, Ulubağ plateau and waterfall.
During the meeting, participants addressed: the new Mountain Partnership Strategy and Governance; mountains in Rio+20 and the Post-2015 Sustainable...
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called the 21st Century the “age of mobility”. As the international community considers how to build on the Millennium Development Goals after the target date of 2015, it is clear that migration must be an integral part of the global development agenda. It is young people who will make the post-2015 world, and young migrants are among...
The UN Secretary-General has issued a report on UN and national efforts to implement sustainable development in small island developing States (SIDS). The report concludes that, while SIDS have had an uneven path towards implementation of sustainable development, some activities have been successful.
The report updates Member States on steps towards implementation of the Barbados Programme of...